04593nam 2201069z- 450 991055776100332120210501(CKB)5400000000045752(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68559(oapen)doab68559(EXLCZ)99540000000004575220202105d2021 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierApplications of SEM Automated MineralogyFrom Ore Deposits over Processing to Secondary Resource CharacterizationBasel, SwitzerlandMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20211 online resource (226 p.)3-0365-0622-5 3-0365-0623-3 During the last decade, software developments in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) provoked a notable increase of applications to the study of solid matter. The mineral liberation analysis (MLA) of processed metal ores was an important drive for innovations that led to QEMSCAN, MLA and other software platforms. These combine the assessment of the backscattered electron (BSE) image to the directed steering of the electron beam for energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to automated mineralogy. However, despite a wide distribution of SEM instruments in material research and industry, the potential of SEM automated mineralogy is still under-utilised. The characterisation of primary ores, and the optimisation of comminution, flotation, mineral concentration and metallurgical processes in the mining industry by generating quantified data, is still the major application field of SEM automated mineralogy. However, there is interesting potential beyond these classical fields of geometallurgy and metal ore fingerprinting. Slags, pottery and artefacts can be studied in an archeological context for the recognition of provenance and trade pathways; soil, and solid particles of all kinds, are objects in forensic science. SEM automated mineralogy allows new insight in the fields of process chemistry and recycling technology.Applications of SEM Automated MineralogyResearch and information: generalbicssc200-nm resolutionalkaline rocksautomated mineralogyautomated quantitative analysis (AQM)automated quantitative mineralogy (AQM)automated scanning electron microscopybulk compositioncomminutionEDX spectraelement concentration mapfault gougeFeret angleFiskenæsset complexgoldgrain sizegrain size distributiongranular materialheavy mineral concentrateshematiteIkkattup nunaaindicator mineralsiron oreIzok LakeKhalzan BuregteiKirunamagnetitemineral associationmineral liberation analysismineral liberation analysis (MLA)mineral mapsmineral processingMLAmulti-stage flotationn/apetrologyphosphateQEMSCAN®Raman spectroscopyraw materialsrecoveryrecyclingREE carbonatite oreREE mineralsresource technologyscanning electron microscopescanning electron microscopyscanning electron microscopy (SEM)SEM-automated mineralogysewage sludge ashes (SSA)signal deconvolutionspectrum quantificationsubmicrometertill samplingtrace mineralsvisualizationVMSwaste of electrical and electronic equipmentX-ray computed tomographyZEISS MineralogicZr-REE-Nb depositsResearch and information: generalSchulz Bernhardedt1280959Schulz BernhardothBOOK9910557761003321Applications of SEM Automated Mineralogy3017750UNINA